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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with Patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also…

Interpolation of the Sokolover Rebbe

The [Babylonian] Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin [109b] brings a statement that when a stranger came to the city of Sodom, he would be placed on a bed. Someone who was taller than the bed would have his…

Lesser Ury (and Jewish Art)

The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…

Heine and the Consequences

But Heinrich Heine—even the aesthetes who are rescuing his immortality in an island publishing house (these gloriously impractical minds whose cerebral wrinkles trail away into ornament) have nothing…

The Sanctification of the Name

A passage in chapter 22 of the third Book of Moses was destined to become the starting point for one of the most peculiar religious concepts of the Jewish people. It reads: “Observe my laws and…

Women in the Synagogue

Duality manifests itself in all things, but in nothing is this two-foldness more plainly seen than in woman’s nature. The weaker sex physically, it is the stronger spiritually, it having been said…

Poem

On Russian fields, in the twilights of winter! Where can one be lonelier, Where can one be lonelier? The doddering horse, the squeaking sleigh, the path under snow—that is my way. Below, in a…

Conversation with a Countryman

An old Jew asked me near the Jaffa Gate: “Is the Saxon Garden still there? The same as ever? Is there a fountain? At the entrance from Czysta Street In the old days confectioners had a shop there…

With Gentle Fingers

With gentle fingers The rain is softly Playing sad melodies On the black instrument of night. We are sitting in the darkness, Each in his own house (The children have fallen asleep) Listening…

Red Evenings

Into its own gold, the evening melted. Bullet laughed midair across to bullet. Colossal city fought with city, giants— The sky disintegrated in red fragments. Hatless, soldiers fly across the…